Ceri Ashward, AuthorMay 27

A Post Apocalyptic Siren’s Song

A soft humming rode the wind—strange, yet familiar. The tune teased his memory, as if it had followed him since childhood. He had never seen a person—or any creature—linked to the sound. For years, he dismissed it as a sound from the old power lines, long abandoned in this changed world. But today, the humming was different. There was a proper voice associated with it, if only he could find where that voice was coming from. He moved like a shadow through ruins he’d never dared to […]

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MikaJun 26, 2025
https://mhorrorwrites.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/free-short-story-download/
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Stelliform PressMay 6, 2024

Huge thanks to Rebecca Campbell for these lovely, generous words about Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK! This debut neo-noir fantasy is available for pre-order from our website. In Canada the book is also available to order via Raincoast/PGC.

#bookstodon #fantasy #fantasybooks #literaryfiction #speculativefiction #surrealfiction #ecofiction #climatefiction #clifi #rebeccacampbell #michaeljdeluca

Of Bookish ThingsDec 1, 2023

#Comics ##ComicBooks #Art #CoverArt #CoverIllustratiob #OniPress #ElijahWood #SpectreVision #HighStrangenes #Paranormal #Horror #DarkFantasy #SurrealFiction #MalachiWard

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/elijah-wood-oni-press-launch-vertigo-comics-rival-high-strangeness/

Elijah Wood & Oni Press Launch Vertigo Comics Rival, High Strangeness

"Pop-Up" imprints are quite the fashionable enterprise, with examples such as Gerard Way's Young Animal and Joe Hill's Hill House imprints garnering a fair degree of notoriety and success for DC Comics in recent years. Now there is a new imprint entering the fray: High Strangeness, a new "pop-up" imprint from Oni Press formed in collaboration with actor-producer Elijah Wood and writer-producer Daniel […]

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Cliff Jones Jr.Oct 31, 2023

A quick manifesto for you this morning. https://cliffjones.substack.com/p/dreampunk-manifesto

#dreampunk #sf #sff #sffh #scifi #scienceFiction #speculativeFiction #fantasyFiction #horror #psychologicalFiction #psyfi #cyberpunk #weirdFiction #bizarroFiction #surrealism #surrealFiction #irrealism #transrealism #dream #dreams #dreaming #lucidDreaming #fiction #writing #books #writingCommunity #authors #indieAuthors #indieAuthorsOfMastodon #indieWriters #indieWritersOfMastodon

A Dreampunk Manifesto

My beliefs about the genre as a movement and a way of life

Rabbit Trails and Parting Veils
Every Day FictionMar 15, 2023
For Pi Day, read "A LITTLE SLICE OF ETERNITY" by William Hawkins #FlashFiction #ScienceFiction #SurrealFiction #PiDay https://everydayfiction.com/a-little-slice-of-eternity-by-william-hawkins/
L. ShapiroDec 26, 2022

Finished #WhenISingMountainsDance by #IreneSolá. Mythic, fragmentary, and place-based, it reminded me of #PrimevalAndOtherTimes by #OlgaTokarczuk. I recommend both (and welcome suggestions for other short #BooksInTranslation to add to my list.)

#tbr #surrealfiction #literaryfiction #bookstodon

Cliff Jones Jr.Dec 9, 2022

#ShortStorySpotlight: "Origin" by #YelenaCalavera

"I loved you before I knew what that was."

Set in the wilds of South Africa, a young woman makes a pilgrimage back to her hometown to mourn the passing of a childhood friend. Reliving their complex relationship leads her into the Dreamtime, where she accepts a quest to discover the mystery of their shared origin.

Featured in #MIRRORMAZE (2020): https://whatisdreampunk.com/mirrormaze

#sss #dreampunk #sff #shortStory #fiction #litfic #surreal #surrealFiction

Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology (What Is Dreampunk?)